Government intervention
Some readers will be familiar with a famous refrain from the Tea Party "Keep your Government hands of my Medicare payments". Anyway, I liked this...
The Mont Pelerin Show comes to town
Next week the Mont Pelerin Society has a General Meeting in Sydney (Australia). Speakers will address a range of topics under the general theme of The...
Where we are on performance measures for teachers: Somewhere near the worst of both worlds?
Lang, Kevin. 2010. "Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24(3): 167–82. DOI:10.1257/jep.24.3.167 Abstract One...
Robert Shiller, not much of an op ed writer
Web 2.0 is a great thing not least because we no longer have to rely on journalists for our reading about contemporary events. Particularly in...
Cassandras of the crisis: Krugman, Soros, Wolf and Shiller
Here's a review essay I worked on in early 2009 which was published in the monthly. I've reproduced the review as filed rather than as...
Rousseau takes another battering
Envy and Altruism in Children Date: 2010-09-17 By: Kirsten Häger (School of Economics and Business Administration, Friedrich Schiller University Jena) URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:jrp:jrpwrp:2010-063&r=exp Envy and altruism...